Chapter 15 The journey is far away
Early on Sunday morning, Xiao Qi went out with a lot of snacks and clothes.
Chen Yulian heard that he was going to Rongcheng for a few days, so she stuffed him with a big suitcase, if it wasn't for the father and son to stop her, maybe she would have to prepare another one.
The Xiao family's family is quite wealthy, in addition to salutes and snacks, Chen Yulian generously gave 3,000 yuan to Xiao Qi, in addition to paying food and participation fees, the rest will buy him something.
Anyway, his son never used money indiscriminately, and Chen Yulian gave the money very quickly.
However, Xiao Xu and Chen Yulian didn't know that Xiao Qi, who left the house, directly got into the car to play in Rongcheng, and after some more tossing and turning, they got on the plane to Nanwan in the afternoon.
Nanwan is the first major city in China to open up to the outside world, and in just over 20 years, this small fishing village has been built into an international metropolis, becoming the fourth largest city in China after the capital, Dongfang and Guangdong.
At the same time, the Winter Hall, which is close to Nanwan, is the center of Huaguo's manufacturing industry and the core of the mobile phone manufacturing industry.
At the most exaggerated time, the Winter Pavilion is responsible for processing 30% of the mobile phones on Shijie, and a sneeze from the Winter Pavilion will make the mobile phone market vibrate.
Because South Bay was built from nothing, the urban planning here is very systematic, with streets and buildings everywhere, and everywhere is brightly lit, which looks very modern and stylish.
Getting off the airport BUS and standing in the center of South Bay, Xiao Qi didn't feel much.
There are many more high-rise buildings in the United States than in the South Bay, and they are more distinctive, compared to these buildings built for the sake of architecture, Xiao Qi does not like it very much, and feels that he has no soul of his own.
Xiao Qi came to Nanwan with the primary purpose of finding a Baodao company that set up a branch in Nanwan in 2003.
This treasure island company is called MediaTek Technology Co., Ltd., or MediaTek (MTK) for short, and it is not very famous in the mainland today, and even in 2013, it was not very famous in the impression of ordinary people.
But in the near future, MediaTek will be in the mobile phone industry, especially in the mobile phone industry in the mainland, which can be described as thunderous and majestic.
Because MediaTek provided Huaguo's mobile phone companies with a mobile phone chip developed by themselves, which includes five modules: CPU processor, channel encoder, digital signal processor, modem and interface, which has made the mobile phone out of the core jishu that has to buy several chips to carry out combined production.
As a result, for the production of mobile phones, the core jishu has been completely lost.
To put it bluntly, MediaTek has packaged the motherboard and software functions of the mobile phone together to make a chip, if you buy it back, you only need to assemble MediaTek's chip and shell, keyboard, speaker, antenna, earpiece, microphone and battery, etc., that is a mobile phone that can be used!
As for the shell, speaker, battery or something, there are many winter halls, and you can find all kinds of brands and prices at various prices, and for mobile phone manufacturers, there are no patents and jishu at all.
It is no exaggeration to say that a farmer who has received a week's training can still skillfully assemble a mobile phone.
To put it more broadly, since MediaTek's mobile phone chips came out, the R&D departments of many mainland mobile phone manufacturers have largely lost their value of existence, because mainland mobile phone companies no longer need any jishu - in fact, historically, companies including Bird, Konka, Lenovo, BBK, etc., have directly laid off their R&D departments.
Of course, these are the things that will start to happen next year, that is, in May and June 2006, until that time, several major manufacturers will accept the promotion of MediaTek's new generation of chips, officially allowing MediaTek to start its own chapter in China's mobile phone industry.
Now MediaTek is still using a set of mobile phone single chips that they developed in 2003, compared to the few models launched in 2006, in terms of performance and price, it is simply very weak, so no manufacturers are buying their accounts now.
It is now September 2005, and MediaTek's new mobile phone chip is still being developed and tested, and it will not be fully formed until around the Spring Festival.
After MediaTek's mobile phone chip solution came out, it brought not only a huge change in mobile phone production, but also a super subversion of the price of the mobile phone market.
Before MediaTek's mobile phone chips were launched, the mobile phone industry was controlled by large companies at home and abroad, and mobile phones below 1,000 and a half were rarely seen, and all mainstream models were more than two or three thousand.
Once MediaTek's mobile phone chips are utilized, the manufacturing cost of mobile phones will directly drop to a few hundred yuan per unit.
Those small companies can completely launch the mobile phone with acceptable performance directly at a price of 1,000 yuan, or even lower, and then people will flock to buy cheap mobile phones, resulting in those Huaguo mobile phone companies that are not very good in quality and have no core jishu, and they will collapse directly.
Even companies such as Nokia, Motorola, Sony Ericsson, etc., will be greatly affected and will have to reduce their prices.
The era of huge profits that can be obtained as long as it is a mobile phone can be said to have completely become history since the launch of MediaTek's mobile phone chip.
In the future, mobile phones will become cheaper and cheaper, and many people should actually be grateful to this company from Treasure Island.
Xiao Qi wants to assemble his own mobile phone, in fact, the scientific name is the one that everyone will be familiar with in the future - copycat machine.
Xiao Qi's idea was to take advantage of the fact that MediaTek had not yet launched a new mobile phone chip, and when their self-confidence was not very sufficient, they used their foresight to win MediaTek's mobile phone chip contract in one fell swoop.
After getting the mobile phone chip, there is no need for any jishu, and when Xiao Qi uses MediaTek's mobile phone chip to be used on a large scale, he entrusts the factory to assemble a batch of passable copycat machines and sell them on the third- and fourth-level market.
Without the exploitation of layers of middlemen, Xiao Qi even decided to launch it at a super shocking price.
With such a cheap and easy-to-use mobile phone, can those people in remote counties and towns not pay for it happily?
Of course, that's for later.
What Xiao Qi has to do now is to find the general manager of MediaTek and persuade him to accept the cooperation plan he proposed.
For this big thing that has never been done before, Xiao Qi said in his heart that it was false not to be nervous.
But after returning from rebirth, the teenager whose courage and personality have changed greatly has absolutely no intention of giving up.
If you try to do it, you may not succeed.
But if you don't work hard to do it, then there's no hope at all.